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Official 

Souvenir Guide 



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Salt Lake City 



Copyright li)Oi) J 
Bs AUGUSTUS C. KOHTZ 



Commercial Club 








SALT LAKE CITY 

my EDWARD F. COLBURN 



COURTESY PASSENQER DEPARTMENT 
DENVER AND RIO QRANDE RAILROAD 

SALT LAKE CITY, sometimes called the "Diamond 
of the Desert," and known far and wide for its beauty 
and promise, has peculiarly a claim upon human in- 
terest. Its name appears in the very first sentence of 
the romantic and stirring story of far western civilization, for 
its delivery from the womb of the wilderness marked the 
beginning of that mighty epoch which in three generations 
has driven the savagery of man and nature into final re- 
treat, and brought into existence the trans-Missouri empire. 

Let us begin at the beginning — on that July morning 
in 1847 when Salt Lake was founded. 

Over against the sky on either side the massive shoul- 
ders and whitened heads of many mountains, and betv/een— 
an alkalied and arid valley clothed in the dull green of the 
sage, outstretched to the shores of a sea which miles away 
was burnished by the sun. In this valley, a cluster of white 
covered wagons — groups of yoke-worn oxen — the smoke of 
camp fires — a few men and •Women darkened by exposure, 
and two children. •,.'** 

Thus in the valley of the Great Salt Lake with the end- 
ing of the long journey of Brigham Young's "First Com- 
pany," began far western civilization. 

Is it not a proud thing for Salt Lake to say that she 
was the genesis of that great movement?. And will it not 
stand ever to her credit and soften whatever may be laid 
up against her by those who have quarreled with her for 
religion's sake? 

To think of what the Rocky Mountain region was when 
Brigham Young began that memorable journey, is to think 
of great treeless plains grazed by millions of buffalo and 
almost unmarked by a white man's trail; of cloud-crested, 
snow-covered mountains through whose forbidding barriers 
few passes were known; of weary stretches of desert scorch- 
ing in the sun and awful in their solitudes; of wild beasts 
and savage men in undisputed dominion — a wilderness so 
vast, so vague, so filled with nameless terrors that none but 
the most intrepid dare invade it. 

Time is fleeting and sixty years are few to measure the 
transformation of that region from what it then was, to 
what it is today. 

How many know — or if they know, how many remem- 
ber — that the Rocky Mountain country was then a part of 
Mexico and that not for seven months after settlement began 
at Salt Lake, did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transfer 
it to the United States? 

Five of the one hundred and forty-eight founders of 
Salt Lake are still living. What mighty memories must be 
theirs ! 



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Temple Stjuc 



The Mormon Temple, that mystical structure with planet- 
ary symbols hewn in its granite walls and six imposing 
steeples pointing heavenward, arouses the curiosity of every 
visiter first and makes a mere impressive picture when 
viewed in the moonlight. The temple is used for baptisms, 
marriages and arcane rites. None but Mormons admitted. 

The Tabernacle has the second largest self sustaining roof 
in America, an unbroken arch resting on 46 columns of sand- 
stone and exits between columns. Its elliptical shape renders 
sound so distinct that a pin dropped at the speakers' desks 
can be heard in the auditorium. Services: Sundays 2 p. m., 
except first Sunday in the month. 



Mormon Tahernac'c 




They saw, and Salt Lake saw, the wagon trail the Mor- 
mons made widen into a highway over which, within three 
years, a hundred thousand men journeyed to the land of 
gold; they saw under irrigation the constant creeping of the 
green over the gray of the desert; they saw year after year 
long wagon trains toiling painfully into the west; they saw 
the stage coaches pf Ben Holliday dashing from station to 
station, and the swift flying riders of the Pony Express; 
they saw the building of the first transcontinental railroad 
and after that — the subjugation of the savage — the pathetic 
end of the buffalo — the carving out of states — and at last, 
where first they found the wastes, they saw a populous and 
productive empire. Was there ever such another thrilling 
and fascinating moving picture unfolded to mortal eyes? 

Let us turn from the Salt Lake of pioneer days to the 
Salt Lake of 1909. 

The population is one hundred and ten thousand and is 
growing ten thousand a year. The city lies half on the 
gently-sloping mountain sides and half in the valley of the 
River Jordan which flows away in vernal billows to distant 
lake and mountain barriers. High over it, stand the white- 
crested sentinels of the Wasatch — their sides seamed and 
slashed with m.any colored rocks, and broken by canons 
where waterfalls and murmuring streams lend their charms 
to ever changing scenes. Beyond the Jordan, in silent mystery 
stretches away for many a hundred miles, the sullen, moody, 
green-tinted "Dead Sea of America." Fill all the intervening 
spaces with every hue of husbandry; embower the city with 
foliage through which intrude into the blue, spires and domes 
and the tops of stately buildings; shadow the scene from 
vagrant clouds, and the reader will have the sky-line and 
ground plan of a picture that he needs but a journey to Salt 
Lake to see. 

On what has been aptly called the "Pathway of Cities" 
— the great central rail route from ocean to ocean — after 
Denver comes Salt Lake, and then San Francisco. Denver 
and San Francisco are fifteen hundred miles apart. They 
are the eastern and western extremes of America's Mining 
Empire over which from its central station, Salt Lake is in 
commercial command. 

Topography, climatic conditions, established railroad, 
trade and industrial relations, all preclude the possibility of 
a competing city. Denver lies six hundred twenty miles east 
and San Francisco eight hundred twenty-four miles west 
of Salt Lake. There are no important cities north to the 
British possessions — none south to the Republic of Mexico. 

That the reader may grasp the greatness of Salt Lake's 
tributary domain, let him measure it one way by twentv 
degrees of longitude and the other by twenty degrees of lati- 
tude. Of square miles it contains one million, seventeen 
thousand, two hundred snd five. 

If England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Norway and 
Sweden were torn from their foundatons and tranferred to 
this domain, they would fail to cover it by fifteen thousand 
square miles. 

Mining is the most important of the material forces 
combined in favor of Salt Lake; but agriculture, fruit rais- 
ing, stock growing and manufacturing have their part in her 
upbuilding. In the distribution of topographv, nature in- 
tended the mountains for the miner; the valleys for the 




The Tabernacle Organ and the noted Choir of 500 Voices 
are a treat to lovers of music. Special Organ Recitals are 
held during the summer for tourists. Dates thereof can be 
obtained from hotel clerks, sightseeing cars and automobiles; 
or the information Bureau on Temple Square, where a guide 
will also show the grounds. 

Brigham Young Statue or Pioneer Monument, erected in 
honcr of the pioneers and their gallant leader, stands at the 
southeast corner of Temple Square. 

The Lion and Bee Hive Houses, denoting strength and in- 
dustry, were built by Brigham Young. Jos. F. Smith, Presi- 
dent of the Mormon Church, resides in the latter. 




farmer and fruit grower and the canons and plateaus for the 
herdsman. All these Salt Lake has. Under modern processes 
mines and mills continue to multiply; agriculture by the 
certain methods of irrigation covers more and more every 
year the arid lands, and flocks and herds abound all over 
Salt Lake's domain. 

Next to resourceful adequate tributary area, the most 
potent influences in the rapid growth of American cities 
have been the railroads. Salt Lake has these and more are 
building. Two lines go to the east, two to the west, one 
to Los Angeles, one to Portland, and already well into 
Nevada, and moving onward toward San Francisco by leaps 
and bounds is the Western Pacific. 

This will be the last link in Mr. Gould's chain of rail- 
ways from ocean to ocean. It will be a speed road with 
heavy steel and fine ballast, and by plunging through , the 
Sierras, will reach San Francisco by a short route and a 
maximum grade not to exceed one per cent. This road will 
open to activities the richest mineral and agricultural por- 
tions of Nevada now in her Resurrection Day of mining, and 
will be a lasting^ impetus to Salt Lake's growth. 

Salt Lake streets have long been famed for their breadth 
and beauty. Many of them are lined with the palatial homes 
of Utah's millionaires and all of them are trimmed with 
running brooks and trees. Public improvements covering 
p'aving, sewer systems, parking and sidewalk making, are 
going forward at a marvelous rate. The expenditure for 
these purposes during the past three years has been nearly 
three millions dollars, as much as was spent for like im- 
provements, all told, in the preceding seventeen years. When 
this good work is completed no city in the land of like pop- 
ulation, will be nearer up-to-date in the matter of municipal 
comforts than Salt Lake. 

There are many things to see in and around Salt Lake. 
All over the city the quaint homes of early days are huddled 
— sometimes close to stately mansions. In the busy center 
there are skyscrapers eleven stories high and many sub- 
tantial and beautiful blocks. The City and County Building 
cost one million dollars and is famed for the beauty of its 
architecture, and of its ten-acre Dark. A magnificent Federal 
Building, recently completed at a cost of five hundred thou- 
sand dollars, has already been outgrown and is soon to be 
materially enlarged. There are artistic club buildings and a 
beautiful public library grouped about one historic corner. 
Near the business center where the skyscrapers are, the Min- 
ing Exchange and Commercial Club are building expensive 
homes. 

Near to the city — ^indeed within its limits, are hot 
springs of great curative powers, where bathers are made 
comfortable, and across the valley to the west the Great 
Salt Lake — the waterv wonder that for untold ages has 
washed the feet of the Wasatch. There are no words in our 
language to describe the pleasures of a bath in that saltv 
sea, where one can lounge upon the waves with no fear of 
sinking, and where, when evening draws nierh and the sun 
sinks from view, the Master painter touches the skv with his 
brush and fills it with colors at once so soft and of such 
blending hues, that the beholder stands awe-struck in the 
presence of the majestic decoration. 




Amelia Palace 



Amelia Palace or Gardo House, just opposite the Bee 
Hive, was built by Brigham Young and named in honor of 
one of his twenty-one wives, Amelia Fclsom Young, 

Eagle Gate, almost adjoining the- Bee Hive, w£S formerly 
a toll gate leading to City Creek Canyon, now a beautiful 
driveway, and Brigham Young's private grounds, where he 
now lies buried with some of his wives in his private cemetery. 

East of Eagle Gate, on Brigham or South Temple street, 
are the residences of Salt Lake City's elite. St. Mary's 
Cathedral, First Fresby^^^Mfc^ib^^^' residences of Hon. 
Ex-Senatcr Thomas IfeFrns, ^UvidKeith, Thomas Weir and 
others are located here. 





Cily and County Building 



The City and County Building, temporarily used as the 
State Capitol also; built of Utah gray sandstone with an in- 
terior cf native onyx; situated in one of the large city blocks; 
surrounded by a beautiful, symmetrically arranged park, is a 
building the city is justly proud of. 

Brigham Young's Grave, in his private cemetery, is cov- 
ered with a granite slab surrounded by an iron fence, one 
block north and one block east of Eagle Gate. 





The above is a panoramic view of Salt Lake City look- 
ing northwest from the City and County building. New 
buildings are under construction all over the city, a great 
many of the highest are being erected on the square in the 
foreground of this picture, including the John J. Daly, the 
eleven-story Newhouse and Boston, the seven-story Judge 
building. Colonial and Mission theatres, the twelve-story 
Newhouse hotel, six-story Commercial Club, Mining Ex- 
change and Salisbury buildings. In background are the 
foothills of the Wasatch mountains on whose benches the 
elements of Mother Earth have been converted into a section 



Sallair, on the 
Great Salt Lake 








Panoramic View of Sal. ^ - ^ .. 

of the most beautiful homes in the West by the Spirit of 
Progress. Apparently at the end of the range is the histor- 
ical, world-renowned Mormon Temple. 

Saltair, on the Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea of America, 
is the only inland salt water bathing resort on the continent. 
The v/ater is 25 per cent, salt, so briny and buoyant that any- 
one can float. The immense pavilion, crescent shaped, of 
Moorish architecture, has the largest dance floor in the world; 
a bicycle track, roller coaster, cafes, etc.; besides a view of 
the beautiful sunset. For time tables, street car and train 
service see Map Supplement to this guide book. 





Sallair, in the Great Salt Lake 

There are sunsets everywhere, there are rivers, moun- 
tains, snow-capped peaks, clear blue skies and rolling clouds, 
but here you have them all, attired in the most delicate hues 
of the daintiest colors, reflected in the crystal mirror of the 
lake; electrified by the sparkling saline vapors in the at- 
mosphere and glittering snow on the mountain peaks. 
Amidst this amazing array of colors you see the fiery ball 
of the setting sun. You behold Helios in all His glory and 
splendor, beauty and power, retiring beyond the horizon to 
enlighten another hemisphere. It is too grand a spectacle for 
human imagination, a picture that bankrupts the English 
language and paralyzes the power of the pen. 



Sunset on the Great Salt Lake 





St. Marv's Lai he J, a I 



St. Mary's, the new $400,000 Catholic Cathedral on Brig- 
ham street, and the numerous other handsome ecclesiastical 
structures signify that all denominations are well represented. 
Salt Lake is a City of Churches. 

Liberty Park, maintained by the city, presents a pictur- 
esoue view with its trees, lawns, shrubs and flowers, and the 
distant snow-capped peaks of the mighty Wasatch Range re- 
flected in the mirrored lake in the midst of summer. Free 
band concerts nearly every Sunday during summer months. 



Liberlv Park and 

Wasatch 

Mountains 





The. KiiuUJord Uulc 



The largest and finest hotel of the intermountain plateau 
is the Knutsford, built of gray native granite at a cost of 
$750,000. Historically the ground on which it stands holds 
the distinction of being the first block where irrigation was 
attempted in Utah. Under the capable management of Mr. 
G. S. Holmes The Knutsford has held the lead as the hostelry 
of the world's tourists, celebrities and the sojourning leaders. 

The Federal Building, although handsome, the city out- 
grew ere it was completed. The site on which it stands was 
sold to the government for the enormous sum of One Dollar 
and marked the beginning of an era of tall buildings in its 
vicinity for Salt Lake Cit: 



Federal Building 
or Postoffice 





ficsidtnce uj t ion. 1 has. Ktarua 



A remarkable contrast is shown in these two pictures, the 
magnificent mansion of a millionaire mining magnate and the 
humble home of the early pioneer. The residence of Ex- 
Senator Kearns is on Brigham street. This vicinity has the 
most beautiful dwellings in the city including some stately 
mansions. The largest apartment house is The Bransford, 
owned by Mayor John S. Bransford. Just north of Brigham 
street, near St. Mary's are the Meredith apartments, situated 
on a high embankment like a modern castle on Salt Lake's 
most fashionable residence street, affording a most inspir- 
ing view of the city. The crown of Brigham street is Federal 
Heights, the most artistically parked section in Salt Lake 
City, which is building up rapidly. Here, too, the view is 




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